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of your crop being affected the following year. You then need to harvest the potatoes (big and small) before it rains, otherwise the fungus will reach them and render them inedible and rotten. Luckily, the other day I was sent a potato blight testing kit

of my list is Brussels sprouts. I don't normally grow them because no-one really eats them in our house. But I grew a few varieties of them last year to test in the magazine.I nearly didn't get a crop of them at all; the trial was almost annihilated

should go about storing my herbs and, so far, the BBC Food website has the most comprehensive and straightforward guide.I'm definitely going to try drying - the most tried and tested method - and I might do some herbs in ice cubes too as that seems such a

and runner beans, dahlias and Philadelphus - all my favourites!With large infestations I resort to my tried and tested weapon of choice - a plant sprayer bottle filled with water and household detergent. The detergent covers the aphids' breathing holes

to the general public. Great effort was made to prevent people getting electrocuted or being struck by trains. Before I was even allowed through the padlocked gate I had to attend a day of awareness training, pass a safety test and have a medical examination

and saw some wonderful melons growing outside. The experts at T&M were putting some new seed selections to the test, and the results looked very promising. Visiting the trials in August, I could see that some of the plants growing in quite an exposed site